Halloween Photography Challenge
When I go back to Wisconsin to spend Halloween with my son and his family, it’s become a tradition for my Granddaughter to explore a cemetery with me.
This year she chose the memorials for us to visit and photograph and I was proud of the fact that she spent time with them. She wiped away the grit ( gently ) and read the names and dates. She had thoughts on the artwork, she asked me why nobody visited the really old grave makers except for us.
Sometimes she agreed to be photographed with some of the grave stones and others she just said ” no ” without any explanation. But you have to respect that so I didn’t photograph her with those particular ones. When I asked why she just shrugged and said,” I don’t feel like it. ”
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Jemma
Wisconsin,
USA
OCTOBER 2025
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Jemma
Wisconsin,
USA
OCTOBER 2025
The ” look ” is because I got sidetracked and it took me a minute to catch up with her.
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Jemma
Wisconsin,
USA
OCTOBER 2025
I’m not sure what caught her interest with this gravestone, but Jemma read each line and asked for the math so that she new how old the person was when they died and how old the grave was.
After I told her, she sat back on her heels and studied it for awhile and then she got up and took me to her next find.
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Jemma
Wisconsin,
USA
OCTOBER 2025
When Jemma found this, two things bothered her.
The first was the fact this was a baby and that she had no name and that she probably died on the same day she was born.
Jemma was adamant, ” Babies don’t belong here. ”
I told her a lot of people felt the same way she did.
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Jemma
Wisconsin,
USA
OCTOBER 2025
I suppose you could say that we also do some traditional Halloween things like:
Me and Jemma painted our pumpkins
Me and Jemma’s Painted our pumpkins.
October 2025
We paid extra attention to Jemma’s sister Luna ( my newest granndaughter…isn’t she ADORABLE? ) because she couldn’t hang around with us for most of the fun
My Granddaughter Luna in her first Halloween costume!
We went Trick or treating and we went to parties and each moment was spooktacular.
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Jemma and Jayde
Wisconsin,
USA
OCTOBER 2025
Jemma and Jayde
Fox Lake Wisconsin
October 2025
Photo A.M. Moscoso
Fox Lake, WI
October 2025 Moscoso/Casey Family
This prompt asked us to take a picture of your favorite thing about Halloween but there are so many parts of Halloween that I love, so I went ahead and overshared!
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Lovely pictures and our earliest history lessons are perhaps looking at gravestones and seeing how many families lost young children. Yes that baby grave is so sad, one wonders if she was an abandoned baby? My mother lost twin girls in the 1950s with one surviving eight hours and christened, but they have no grave. Mum said they put babies in coffins with adults. Looking back that is so bizarre, but I have recently seen a TV programme about how many stillborn and short lived babies were actually put in mass graves and parents told that story.
I’ve heard stories from landscapers who were given instructions by some homeowners to take extra care around trees and sometimes bushes because somebody had buried their infants or very young children there. Some people have just passed the info along because the original homeowners had moved on ages ago. My Great Grandmother had one of those trees in her yard. She said that the grave predated her house, but she assumed nobody would make a story about an unamed baby buried under a tree, so she treated it like a gravesite.
Love these photos. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!